Hindi PropBank Annotation Guidelines December ... - Verbs Index

kara.01 ; sense ‘do’
Arg0: doer
Arg1: thing done
Example: [ ARG0 rAma ne] [ ARG1 kAma] kiyA
Ram Erg work did
“Ram worked.”
However, as was mentioned above too, even though verbs can be quite polysemous, it
would be time consuming and not so useful to provide a set of roles for all the different
senses of the verb if the set of roles is the same. Instead, we only differentiate between
two senses of the verb when they take different sets of arguments, hence these senses
are represented using different rolesets. This is shown through the example below
where we provide some information for two senses of the verb baca ("baca.01" and
"baca.02") from its framefile.
baca.01 ‘remain’
Arg1: thing remaining
Arg2: benefactive, entity getting the remaining thing
Example: [ ARG02 mere pAsa] [ ARG01 10 rupaye] bace hEM
me-obl near/possession 10 rupees remained be
‘I have 10 rupees left with me.’
baca.02 ‘avoid’
Arg0: avoider
Arg1: thing avoided
Example: [ ARG0 yaha] [ ARG0 SarAba se] bacawA hE
He liquor from avoid be
‘He avoids (drinking) liquor.' i.e. 'He runs from the liquor.’
In this case, we have two rolesets indicating the difference in the senses for the verb
baca, which also have different sets of argument roles. When annotating, it is
necessary to look at all the different senses specified in the framefile before annotating.
The annotation tool- Jubilee will load the framefile in the PropBank annotation pane. An
example of this is shown in figure 9 below.:
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